Oil Shale, Vol.37, No.4, 288-303, 2020
Vapor pressures of narrow gasoline fractions of oil from industrial retorting of Kukersite oil shale
This study presents vapor pressure data for narrow boiling range fractions, viewed as pseudocomponents, prepared by rectification from a wide Kukersite oil shale retort oil gasoline fraction, a straight-run fraction with a boiling range from about 40 to about 200 degrees C This technical gasoline fraction was produced in a commercial solid heat carrier retort. Vapor pressures were measured according to the ASTM D6378 standard with a commercial ERAVAP vapor pressure tester using a vapor-liquid ratio of 4:1. The vapor pressure curves were derived by fitting the experimental data using the integrated form of the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. From this equation heats of vaporization and atmospheric boiling points were calculated. The suitability of three easy-to-use conventional oil vapor pressure correlations for predicting the vapor pressure of narrow boiling range fractions of Kukersite oil shale retort oil gasoline was evaluated.
Keywords:|Kukersite oil shale;oil shale retort oil;gasoline fraction;pseudocomponents;vapor pressure;vapor pressure correlations